(2)630
CHED AM Radio Edmonton: At 11:40 a.m., Mon., Nov. 07, 2005,
Rob
Breckenridge (substituting on the Dave Rutherford Show) did a telephone
interview with David Matas (B’nai Brith Canada) in which Mr. Matas
continued
promoting the deportation of Nazi war criminals via the d&d
process. There
were no opposing views presented by representatives or lawyers for the
d&d
victims (such as Eric Hafemann) nor by representatives of the CIMM
committee
(such as Andrew Telegdi), who recommend drastic changes to the present
d&d
process.

In
the past, CHED provided similar biased
forums for Steven Rambam (Leslie Primeau Show) and for Ed Morgan of the
Canadian Jewish Congress (11:10 a.m., Jun. 28, 2005). It is disturbing
that 630
CHED (and especially Rob Breckenridge) is ignoring its responsibility
in
providing balanced coverage on such critical issues.

(3) Globe
and Mail apology:
Responding to a complaint by Myroslaw
Prytulak before the Ontario Press
Council,
the Globe and Mail has finally conceded that referring to the people of
the
former Soviet Union simply as Russians is an inaccuracy, when speaking
of 27
million Russian deaths during WWII. However, the apology omitted the
following
specific data: “Prytulak maintained that Russia’s losses were 5.8
million,
including 1.8 million military and 4.0 million civilians, and that, by
way of
comparison, Ukraine’s losses were 8.0 million including 2.5 million
military
and 5.5 million civilians.”

(4) Persona
non grata:An
article in the Nov. 23
- Dec. 13, 2005
issue of the Ukrainian News indicates that Canada rejected a visa
application
by Ukrainian oligarch Vadym Rabinovych, who was scheduled to attend a
business
luncheon sponsored by the Jewish National Fund in Edmonton on Nov. 17,
2005.
Mr. Rabinovych is alleged to be associated with organized crime and
illegal
arms trafficking.http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/ukrnews/ukrnews.html

(5) UKAR:http://www.willzuzak.ca/lp/index.html/
The CHRT (Canadian Human Rights Tribunal)
arranged a telephone conference for 10Nov2005 for the sole purpose of
discussing the venue for mediation of the CJC vs UKAR complaint. In a
letter to
J. Grant Sinclair (CHRT Chair) dated 16Nov2005,
Lubomyr Prytulak
complains that
he was “bushwacked” -- Mark Freiman (CJC counsel) opened with abuse,
the CHRT
dropped mediation and immediately launched into case management,
despite Dr.
Prytulak’s protests and refusal to submit to CHRT jurisdiction.

In a second letter to Mr. Sinclair dated
19Nov2005,
Dr. Prytulak outlines the malfeasance of the CHRC in
handling the
CJC vs UKAR complaint. A third letter dated 05Dec2005 to
Giacomo Vigna
(CHRC counsel) asks for clarification of the “Disclosure Package” of
CHRC submissions. These
are all archived athttp://www.willzuzak.ca/lp/chrc/outline.html

Should the CHRT decide to proceed with the
case, I would urge the Ukrainian Canadian Congress to seek intervenor
status to
protect Ukrainian Canadian interests.

(It was written prior to the “parachuting”
fiasco of Michael Ignatieff into the Etobicoke-Lakeshore electoral
district in
Toronto to replace Jean Augustine at the expense of a couple of
potential
Ukrainian-origin candidates.)

In addition to the d&d issue, which
has
been of particular concern to me for so many years, there is the
general issue
of abuse of power and lack of accountability of our political
representatives
and bureaucrats. There is too much secrecy and a lack of checks and
balances in
our society. The Access to Information Act is backwards. It allows our
politicians and bureaucrats -- presumably employees and servants of
Canadian
citizens -- to classify virtually anything they desire. We must then
fill out
forms, pay fees and wait years to obtain information, which should be
freely
available to everybody and posted on the Internet in the first place.
To have
material classified for a specified period of time, a politician or
bureaucrat
should be required to file an application before a judge and this
application
should be reviewed annually.

The Ukrainian community in Canada had to
wait 91 years to obtain an acknowledgement -- not an apology -- of the
unjust
internment of their forefathers and mothers during WWI. How long will
we have
to wait for an apology and just compensation for the victims -- not
just an
acknowledgement -- of the Deschenes Commission witch hunt of 1985 and
the
d&d process devastating our community since 1995?